# wgrib2: -set_ftime1

## Introduction

With wgrib2 v2.0.7, routines for generating started
to shift from -ftime1 to -ftime2. Since wgrib2 needs
the ability to read the time stamps, the routines
that wrote the time stamps also had to shift from
from -set_ftime1/-set_ave -> -set_ftime2.

The -set_ftime1 calls the
old routines to set time stamp. One should not
use this option because the old ftime routines could
not handle more complicated time stamps and needed a rewrite (ftime2 routines).

See also:

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> Description: misc X set ftime

_Docs derived from <https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/set_ftime1.html>_
